Editing Vincent Price (section)

=== 1950s ===
Price was active in radio, portraying the [[Robin Hood]]-inspired crime-fighter [[Simon Templar]] in ''[[The Saint (radio program)|The Saint]]'', which ran from 1947 to 1951. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror-film roles with the leading role in ''[[House of Wax (1953 film)|House of Wax]]'' (1953) as a homicidal sculptor,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/obituaries/vincent-price-a-suave-but-menacing-film-presence-is-dead-at-82.html|title=Vincent Price, a Suave but Menacing Film Presence, Is Dead at 82|last=Flint|first=Peter B.|date=October 26, 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 18, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the first [[three-dimensional film]] to land in the year's top 10 at the North American box-office. His next roles were ''[[The Mad Magician]]'' (1954), the monster movie ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' (1958), and its sequel ''[[Return of the Fly]]'' (1959). That same year, Price starred in two thrillers by producer-director [[William Castle]]: ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and ''[[The Tingler]]'' as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama ''[[Three Skeleton Key]]'', the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He had first performed the work in 1950 on ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]'' and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]''.<ref>[http://www.oneact.org/productions/ThreeSkeletonKey/ThreeSkeletonKey_museum.html One Act Virtual Museum], oneact.org. Retrieved May 20, 2012.</ref>

[[File:House on Haunted Hill (1959) by William Castle.webm|thumb|thumbtime=235|''House on Haunted Hill'' (1959) by William Castle]]
Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', released in 1956. About this time, he also appeared in episodes of television shows such as ''[[Science Fiction Theatre]]'', ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', and ''[[General Electric Theater]]''. In the 1955–56 television season, he was cast three times on the religion anthology series ''[[Crossroads (1955 TV series)|Crossroads]]''. In the 1955 episode "Cleanup", Price portrayed the Reverend Robert Russell. In 1956, he was cast as [[Rabbi]] [[Gershom Mendes Seixas]] in "The Rebel", and as the Rev. Alfred W. Price in "God's Healing".